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We are pleased to announce the web release of Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's monumental work on Hindu culture and lifestyle:
Living with Siva.
Click here for the entire text and artwork, now on-line!

Jai Satguru Jayanthi! Happy Birthday to Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami.

It is the auspicious day of Satguru Bodhinatha's Guru Jayanti. Messages and gifts are coming in from around the world.

Bodhinatha's Sun One Video. Most Recent update: September 12, 2003. Bodhinatha speaks on Ahimsa, noninjury, yama #1, which is noninjury in thought, word and deed. The law of karma decrees that it is wise not to harm or hurt others, for we will then receive harm and hurt in exchange in the future. 12 minutes, 29 seconds.

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Vasuki Sendan and daughter present Bodhinatha with a gift.

Bodhinatha reading emails from devotees around the world sending their love and appreciations on Guru Jayanti.

Sannyasin Saravananathaswami and Sadhaka Jivanandanatha take a moment to chat in the Ekadanta Kulam offices. Normally their work areas are quite separate... They have bright smiles on their faces... possibly in anticipation of tonights special birthday party and feast!

Well the celebrations started earlier than expected.. a gift from Kulapati Deva Seyon.

A giant Vanilla Chocolate ice cream cake!

Yogaswami sang:

"The single Word hath purified my dross,
The soulful incantation of Siva Siva
No more do I succumb to good and ill,
Nor to the distinction of one and the many.
No more aching sorrows, as I awaken
To the knowledge of my real Self.

Sing ye the hallowed name of Siva, Siva
I've attained the goal of this life.
And am in command of everything around.
I roam at will in sweet leisure,
With the whole world as my ken.

Sing ye in joyful strains Siva, Siva.
The felicity that generates from the Word,
I cannot recount, except be immersed in it.
The end of knowledge is mine without learning.
I hold the key of existence in my hand.

Oh magnify the praise of Siva, Siva.
The macrocosm, the whole of the cosmos
I see with veneration deep within me
Therein I behold His fragrant Feet,
Where arise the devas and the triune.

Enraptured in an ecstasy, Siva, Siva.
By constancy of love do I apprehend;
Yet in trepidation, I gaze at nothing,
Magnificent indeed is the mystery
Baffling the ken of Even the realised seers."
Natchintanai

Sadhaka Jivanandanatha took some pictures of two new items going on our Himalayan Academy store http://store.himalayanacademy.com (click to go and buy them on line--opens in new window.).

The first is a small crystal Ganesha.

This is part of Sadhaka's Pilliyar Kulam responsibilities of keeping our Mini Mela bookstore and online website store up-to-date.

In a month or two we should be putting up the new Dancing with Siva in color, making Gurudeva's complete trilogy in color for sale online.

This is a small crystal Siva Lingam. Both these Lingams and the Ganeshas were blessed in our temple by our 700-pound crystal lingam.

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